Bloomberg Law
Aug. 22, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

The Craigslist Law Firm

Casey Sullivan

Using Craigslist to find work might be a bleak reality for some law graduates in today’s market. But news out of Florida today brings a word of warning for those who go that route.

In Coral Springs, two men were charged with operating a fake law firm without a license to practice law, and advertising their business as a firm with an “elite network of over 100 attorneys” to recruit junior lawyers to do their work.

Erika Pesantes of The Sun-Sentinel reports that Joseph Anton Hilton, 56, and Adam Forman, 46, owned The Asset Protection Law Firm, which drew more ...

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